Always wanted to visit this place since I was a kid. It's a challenge to shoot unless you're up in a plane. Widest lens I had was the 15mm fisheye.
Image is a 3 image HDR. -2, 0, +2
f/16
ISO 100
Meteor Crater
Always wanted to visit this place since I was a kid. It's a challenge to shoot unless you're up in a plane. Widest lens I had was the 15mm fisheye.
Image is a 3 image HDR. -2, 0, +2
f/16
ISO 100
wow! love the image. at first i thought I would crop off some of the bottom, but looking at it that way, I like your cropping better. I really like the effect the fish eye gave it, I think it complements the crater very well. Even the streaks in the sky remind me of the meteor's action. cool image.
At first I was wondering about those streaks, and figured out it was rain...just looks strange with the fisheye distortion.Originally Posted by Cheryl Flory
Michael, I've always wanted to go there and see it too! Nicely done with the sky and the fish-eye!!
Mike how about a stitch panorama or just two vertical from the fisheye !!!
That is one awesome sight !!!!
I did one Alfred. (vertical pano with 24-105). it came out pretty good, but because I shot it in manual and not HDR, can't get nice balance between sky and crater. In the pano, which I'm going to reprocess, I have little sky in it.
... figured you did Mike !!!!
Sweet !!!!
Great application use of HDR.
I have always wanted to see this also, I drove by it once and stopped, i was penniless but they would not let me in for a peak, I was bummed. I feel like natural vistas and features of the world like this, kind of belong to everyone, even though we all need to respect the site for the heavy traffic of visitors through time. It just seems there should not be a charge for this anymore than the Grand Canyon. Okay, sorry, enough of that.
I like this but It looks like possibly you did not use a tripod and the registration of the bottom rocks are out of alignment. This is a place you may only go to once. Make that extra effort to record it so well it could never be better. Great Site, good capture, appeal and sense of wonderment.
Excellent capture Michael...this is one sweet image...very impressive...:cool:
I did use a tripod, but I'm wondering as you mention if I may have stuck an image from a different series into this HDR....which may have been slightly from the 1st set
I'll check it again...
Interesting,
Yeah the rock on the sides look aligned well, as is the whole bowl, rim and clouds. Well the great news is this hot image can likely get even Hotter. This is certainly a eye catcher.
Michael, As always a phenomenal landscape image. I always see you with the big lenses, it's nice to carry a fisheye every now and then. I'm heading out that way in November, can't wait. Congrats!!!
Congrats Michael - Love it - Do see the out of alignment issue mentioned.
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